What the hell was THAT?

Last night I was feeling a bit poorly but that’s not unusual. This morning at 5am I woke to abdominal pain which got worse until we went to the Emergency room, where it spiked three times at high kidney-stone, knee-buckling, all-coherent-thought-stops level.

Kidney stone? Another perforation? Did that cyst in one of my kidneys decide to go blooie? We don’t know, because the CAT scan and urine test came back clean. And while the pain is still here a bit, it has abated. The doctor said “that happens sometimes”. He thinks I might have passed a small kidney stone but no way to be sure.

Great. I’ve had many kidney stones, and a perforation, and assorted other problems some of which I have not discussed online in specific terms, but this is something new: “Massive pain for no goddam reason.”

I’m back at home now, a bit wrung-out and wondering what the hell hit me. Of course I’m really grateful it wasn’t another perforation but there’s this mystery. And how often is this going to happen?

I still don’t know why the hell my uvula tried to collapse into my throat oh so many years ago. They said it was an allergic reaction, but couldn’t tell me what triggered it. Hasn’t happened since that one time and I’m hoping it never does again.

Best theory we have at the moment is that it was a small stone. Big ones and small ones hurt about the same, the only difference is duration. As Dana said, I’m just glad it didn’t end in the abdominal fillet followed by a year of recovery. In fact later that afternoon I was on my feet doing stuff… slowly.

Cajun – crescendo it did, and go about my business (slowly) I did. But since delay can be fatal (and nearly was last time) if it’s a perforation I did go to the hospital. Their CAT scanner can rule out a perforation.